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In the second quarter of 2025, a worrying signal emerged from Brazil's agricultural sector: the number of judicial restructuring applications by agricultural enterprises rose significantly, hitting a new high for the same period.
In December 2024, Brazil enacted its first comprehensive regulation specifically targeting biological inputs—Regulation No. 15.070—marking a major breakthrough in the country's biological input regulatory system. Biological inputs, which were previously governed by scattered fertilizer and pesticide regulations, have now been formally integrated into a unified, dedicated regulatory framework.
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In the family of microbial pesticides, viral preparations play an important role and are mainly divided into two categories: bacteriophages for controlling plant bacterial diseases and insect viruses for controlling pests. Among them, bacteriophages, as viruses that specifically infect bacteria, are emerging as a new hope for solving the problems in controlling plant bacterial diseases due to their unique advantage of precise targeting.
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Australia's Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) recently officially announced the suspension of product registrations and label approvals for chemical products containing dimethoate for use on three berry crops: blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. This regulatory decision was not impulsive but followed a one-month public consultation process.
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In recent years, global agriculture has entered a phase of high uncertainty. Extreme weather events such as heatwaves, floods, prolonged droughts, and severe storms have evolved from occasional disasters in the past into regular factors reshaping the global agricultural production pattern. These climate shocks not only directly threaten the stability of crop yields but also force farmers, regulatory authorities, and input suppliers to completely restructure the combination logic of fertilizer and plant protection schemes. Against this backdrop, achieving in-depth integration of crop nutrition and plant protection ingredients with biostimulants as a bridge to create integrated solutions has become a core trend for the industry to break through predicaments. This transformation is driven not only by climate pressure but also by the dual impetus of regulatory guidance and market demand.
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Amid the wave of digital transformation in Southeast Asia's agricultural sector, Thailand, as a core agricultural economy in the region, sees its agricultural output value accounting for over 10% of GDP annually, directly or indirectly supporting nearly half of the population's employment. The modernization of its agriculture is crucial to national economic stability. In recent years, global climate change, intensifying market competition, and farmers' demands for improved efficiency have driven Thailand's agriculture to shift from "experience-based farming" to "data-driven farming". Against this backdrop, the SAP Cloud ERP cooperation project between Sotus International Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Sotus"), a leading Thai agrochemical enterprise, and NTT DATA Business Solutions (Thailand) Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "NTT DATA") has emerged as an industry benchmark for digital transformation. It not only addresses Sotus' developmental bottlenecks but also empowers the upgrading of Thailand's agricultural ecosystem through data innovation.
The pesticide market largely continued its previous trend last week, with the overall trading atmosphere failing to gain significant momentum. Terminal procurement demand remained relatively flat, and many market participants maintained a wait-and-see attitude. The market is currently characterized by three key trends: Prices for most products are fluctuating within a low range as the industry's primary focus remains on destocking existing inventory. A few products, however, are holding firm. This is due to a combination of low existing inventory and insufficient operating rates at manufacturing plants, which has led to a tightening of market supply. Conversely, some products that experienced significant price hikes earlier are now on a downward trajectory. Weighed down by the dual pressures of oversupply and weak demand, these products lack support from the demand side and may see further price declines in the short term.
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Recently, an announcement from New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) has attracted widespread attention. Amid strong public opposition, the authority officially withdrew its previous plan to raise the maximum residue limit (MRL) of glyphosate in some crops and explicitly prohibited the direct use of glyphosate on cereal crops for human consumption. This regulatory shift not only demonstrates the significant value of public participation in food safety governance but also reflects the in-depth balance between agricultural production norms and consumer safety demands.
Nigeria remains one of Africa’s most dynamic and rapidly developing agrochemical markets. While dominated by generic active ingredients, its structure is undergoing profound transformation driven by regulatory adjustments, expanded local manufacturing, and strong headwinds from currency depreciation.
